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Tag Archives: Mental fixations
SELF-TAUGHT
Self-Taught Our path to enlightenment is a matter of undoing our mental fixtures and fittings – the ideas we hold onto and fixate about which create an illusion of self and the world around us. We are pure being that … Continue reading
WORSHIPPING A BUDDHA
Worshipping A Buddha Worshipping a Buddha is worshipping a form, an idea. Better to be practical, and acknowledge the worth of a Buddha through experience. Enlightenment is the experience of being a nobody; we are devoted to reality, and not … Continue reading
THE PROBLEM WITH IDENTIFYING FIXATIONS
The Problem With Identifying Fixations Realisation of our natural, true nature is only obscured by conceptual fixations in the mind. These aren’t easy to spot because it’s what we think we are. Fixations are obsessive attachments which we carry around, … Continue reading
STILL WORRIED ABOUT EGO?
Still Worried About Ego? When something is observed, heard, smelt, tasted or touched – or when we’re having a poo – none of these activities are ego-orientated. Ego is the collection of mental fixations to which we cling, and that … Continue reading
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MENTAL FIXATIONS
Mental Fixations. Mental Fixations. What are they? I have loads of fixated ideas wandering around in my brain. We are told that fixations come from our own likes and dislikes – the two universal poisons of Hope/Fear and Repulsion/Attraction – … Continue reading
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 